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officedb1.gif No client application other than a web browser.

This is the essence of Office 2.0: one should be able to perform most office productivity tasks without having to use any client application other than a web browser.

That means no email client, no word processor, no spreadsheet, no presentation tool. Nothing but a web browser. Of course, special needs create exceptions to this rule.

The Office 2.0 Database is developed and maintained by Ismael Ghalimi , a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org, initiator of Office 2.0, and author of IT|Redux. Ismael is an advisor to several high-tech companies, including AdventNet (a.k.a. Zoho), EchoSign, EveryTrail, Open IT Works, ThinkFree, and 3TERA. Ismael is a professional scuba diver, private pilot, and American V-Twin rider.
Ismael can be reached at ismael@itredux.com.

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gupplogo.jpgI have discovered Gubb.net yesterday, an amazing Web-based application with an easy-to-use interface that enables anyone to create, manage and share an unlimited number of lists. In short, it’s an easy way to finally organize your life.

Signing-up process is easy, after getting to the main page, you can create list with different colors with simple clicks, you can also set the way you like to show your list on the screen, screen-font-sizing option is on the top right side of the page.

I have tried almost all online To-Do list services, but finally I will stick to Gubb.net for few reasons, the easy-interface without complicating what you are really trying to do, 1 easy step to set a new list or to add a to-do that also can have the following 3 set-ups:
1- you can define the priority of the to-do with stars rating system
2- you can set a due date for the to-do
3- you can set a reminder to be received by email or sms text to you mobile

Another wonderful thing is that you can add to-dos to any of your lists by sending a simple email where the subject line is what you want to appear. Gubb.net also give you the option to add to-dos by sending sms text from your mobile, but unfortunately I can do this from where I living, for the time being this service is only available for mobile operators in the USA and Canada, hoping that will offer this service worldwide.

I would like to suggest to Gubb.net considering the following options:

1- Creating special numbers in the USA, where subscribers can send sms text from outside the USA that will drop in a given list created.

2- Be able to add items to lists by including your Gubb.net email address in the CC and/or BCC section of a message.

Gubb.net is also working on a desktop solution for PC and Mac that will be offered soon, as their website is saying.

Joe Bergeron & Josh Weinstein founded gubb to address one real time question: What’s with the total perplexing absence of Web-based applications built around our ceaseless obsession with lists, lists, lists?

Keep it up Gubb boys, I will spread the word !!!

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Ben & Mena Trott
The high school sweethearts founded a company that offers popular blogging tools including LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.

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Michael & Xochi Birch
They took a chance on each other after meeting in a british pub. Six startups later, they have created one of the top 10 social networks in the United States.

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Stewart Butterfield & Caterina Fake
He wooed her with her visions of them building a business together. They sold their second effort to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.

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calacanis1.jpgSome folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0.

Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.

Web 2.0 services are now the commoditized platform, not the final product. In a world where a social network, wiki, or social bookmarking service can be built for free and in an instant, what’s next?

Web 2.0 services like digg and YouTube evolve into Web 3.0 services with an additional layer of individual excellence and focus. As an example, funnyordie.com leverages all the standard YouTube Web 2.0 feature sets like syndication and social networking, while adding a layer of talent and trust to them.

A version of digg where experts check the validity of claims, corrected errors, and restated headlines to be more accurate would be the Web 3.0 version. However, I’m not sure if the digg community will embrace that any time soon.

Wikipedia, considered a Web 1.5 service, is experiencing the start of the Web 3.0 movement by locking pages down as they reach completion, and (at least in their German version) requiring edits to flow through trusted experts.

Also of note, is what Web 3.0 leaves behind. Web 3.0 throttles the “wisdom of the crowds” from turning into the “madness of the mobs” we’ve seen all to often, by balancing it with a respect of experts. Web 3.0 leaves behind the cowardly anonymous contributors and the selfish blackhat SEOs that have polluted and diminished so many communities.

Web 3.0 is a return to what was great about media and technology before Web 2.0: recognizing talent and expertise, the ownership of ones words, and fairness. It’s time to evolve, shall we?

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converttubelogo.gif ConvertTube.com is a service that will let you convert and download an online video by simply providing the URL.

The options for file conversion let you convert for Windows, Macs, Flash files, audio only, iPhone, iPod, PSP or mobile. Once the conversion is complete, you can download the file to your computer and have your way with it. The name of the service and the icon imply that the service is specifically for YouTube videos, and I think that’s the point. While this isn’t stated anywhere on the site, I tried videos from other online sources that do allow for video download, and found that only YouTube videos will be converted for this service.

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Facebook has added a useful feature to all profiles. Beneath your user photo you can see icons for all the action links and application you have on your profile. When you click on one of these icons, you will be directed to the part of your profile page where that application is sitting.

These icons are viewable for your friends’ profiles as well, so now it is easier to see at a glance what applications have been added to their profile pages, and it makes it a little easier to get to the various applications as well.

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Mini Blogging is fun, even I wonder everytime I update my Twitter or Pownce (not really doing the same for Jaiku & Tumblr), that why anyone would be interested in reading or following or knowing at what time I woke up or I am going to sleep and … and … and …

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Nevertheless, I was kind of “a good miniblogger” lately with some juggling between the sites, writing something on Pownce, then you have to abbreviate as much as possible to insert it in Twitter and Jaiku because the restriction to 140 characters, then if any link is included, which is a cool feature of Pownce, you need to shrink the url for Twitter. While Pownce takes too much time to load the feeds, Twitter is much faster.

I looked around on the net, to find a way for posting to the 4 sites in 1 shot, landed on a blog where it offered a few confusing steps solution for it and after trying, Twitter was posting some old stuff I had, so I dropped it.

I was really eager to see something similar to Meebo, the coolest online messenger, one simple sign-in and you are online with 6 different messengers.

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I am sure some internet geeks out there are working on the multi-miniblog posting thing, so please guys make it quick or my second option is going the hard way, by dropping 3 of them and stick to only 1, which is hard to do when you are addicted to online stuff.